Fried Something?

[Jamie007]

Call me dummy and I know better than this. I had my spare computer on and tried to plug in a cdrom. The power plug was upside down and caused a spark. What do you think I fried? The computer will turn on, power to everything it seems but no picture on the monitor. Actually It doesn't sound like it is even trying to boot (startup disk in A drive).
Any ideas? And yes lesson learned LOL.
Thanks Jamie

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Jamie

[david eaton]

Hello Jamie and welcome to the PC Guide Forums.

It is possible that you have fried the power supply or one of the outputs. If you have a multimeter I suggest you check that ALL the output voltages are present and correct. If not, can you substiute a PSU from another machine? Some lessons can come expensive can't they?

David

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[Jamie007]

Thanks David,
I checked the power supply, All good. Then I unplugged the cdrom that I had got the spark from and everything is working. What would make a bad drive not let the system boot up? I have 2 old cdroms and neither will let it boot up?

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Jamie

[iisbob]

Hotswapping was one of the things i liked a bout SCSI, but it doesn't work with IDE! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/eek.gif

Sounds to me like you've pooched your motherboard, probably blew a capacitor or two.

Time for a new mobo!



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iisbob

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[mjc]

If everything is working with the questionable CD unplugged then you could have still damaged part of your power supply...or like iisbob said the motherboard.

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mjc
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